How to Enable or Disable Legacy F8 Advanced Boot Options in Windows 10
By default, you can boot to Advanced Startup Options in Windows 10.
The Advanced Boot Options screen is the old black screen at boot like in Windows 7 and previous Windows. Advanced Boot Options lets you start Windows in advanced troubleshooting modes like Advanced Startup Options. However, you access the Advanced Boot Options screen by turning on your computer and keep tapping the F8 key before Windows starts.
This tutorial will show you how to enable or disable the legacy F8 Advanced Boot Options screen at boot in Windows 10.
You must be signed in as an administrator to be able to enable or disable the F8 Advanced Boot Options screen.
If you have Fast Boot enabled in your UEFI firmware settings, then you will not be able to boot the Advanced Boot Options screen since you will not have time to press F8 before Windows starts.
If you dual boot Windows 10 with another Windows and have enabled Advanced Boot Options, then you will always see the Windows Boot Manager screen below first at boot.
Contents
- Option One: To Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options using displaybootmenu Command
- Option Two: To Enable or Disable F8 Advanced Boot Options using bootmenupolicy Command
EXAMPLE: Advanced Startup Options (default)
EXAMPLE: F8 "Advanced Boot Options" or "Startup Settings" screen
1 Open an elevated command prompt or command prompt at boot.
2 Do step 3 (enable) or step 4 (disable) for what you want to do.
A) Type the command below in the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 5. (see screenshot below)
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu yes
This is the default setting.
A) Type the command below in the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 5. (see screenshot below)
bcdedit /set {bootmgr} displaybootmenu no
5 When finished, you can close the command prompt if you like.
If you multi boot operating systems, then this option is handy to be able to specify which OS you want to enable or disable F8 Advanced Boot Options for.
1 Open an elevated command prompt or command prompt at boot.
2 Typebcdedit
in the command prompt, and press Enter.
3 Under the top Windows Boot Manager section, look to the right of default, and make note of what it has as the identifier (ex: "{current}"). This is for your default OS. (see screenshot below)
4 Do step 5 (enable) or step 6 (disable) for what you want to do.
A) Type the command below in the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 7. (see screenshot below)
bcdedit /set {identifier} bootmenupolicy Legacy
Substitute identifier in the command above with the actual identifier (ex: {current}) from step 3 for your default OS.
For example:bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy Legacy
This is the default setting
A) Type the command below in the command prompt, press Enter, and go to step 7. (see screenshot below)
bcdedit /set {identifier} bootmenupolicy Standard
Substitute identifier in the command above with the actual identifier (ex: {current}) from step 3 for your default OS.
For example:bcdedit /set {current} bootmenupolicy Standard
7 When finished, you can close the command prompt if you like.
That's it,
Shawn
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